[Sanford News] Hello again

Well it has been a few weeks since our last report, so I thought I would take a few minutes and let you know what is going on with us.  We have been busy in language and culture lately, doing our best to learn to speak Tok Pisin and becoming more acquainted with our new home here in PNG.  It really has been fun and we are learning – slowly but surely.  It has been fun to make new friends and really start to appreciate the PNG people.  Actually next week we have our first language evaluation in Tok Pisin.  We will sit down with consultants and a national language helper and we will be evaluated on our ability to communicate certain things in the language.  Pray that it goes well and we can have clear minds (those of you who know me know how BIG of request that is!).

 

We have been trying to plan and move ahead in our plans to move into a tribe sometime in the next months.  One big step we made was purchasing our solar electric system that we will use to provide power to our tribal house.  Thanks to the generosity of one of our sending churches, we were able to buy the entire system and get it designed and ready to ship over to us on a container in the next few months.  This was a huge hurdle to jump over and a major answer to prayer.  We feel like this is just another affirmation from the Lord that He wants to get us in the tribe and get the Good News to another unreached group of people.

 

Another big project that we are moving ahead on is the purchase of a boat and motor for our team to use in transporting both ourselves and our supplies in and out of the tribe.  It is a pretty big project and we hope to keep moving on it so that it will be available to us to use when we start house building, etc.  We do have more detailed information about the project, if you are interested; drop us an email and we can fill you in more. 

 

It looks like there is a chance that we will be going into the bush with the Lujans for our bush orientation next week.  We would be gone for 3-4 weeks and be spending our time learning how to live in the bush.  We aren’t sure yet, but it looks like this might happen, so we are trying to plan a bit for that and get ready to go in.  If we do plan on going next week, I will send another update and give you a little more info about what “bush orientation” is and what we will be doing. 

 

Thanks again for your prayers and support.  More to come…  

 

Lane Sanford
New Tribes Mission - Papua New Guinea
email:   lane_sanford@ntm.org
web:     www.lksanford.blogspot.com